“I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.” PeopleNeedsShouldStillsEyeBeautifulSweetRainShould HaveRegardScalesSundayPreachingSmoothThunderSermonsSilkVelvetPulpitPitchforks Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.” EarthBeautifulHeavenlySundayEarnestCalmnessTediousReposeSabbath Book:Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be Source: Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be